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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?
(a) Mental stability.
(b) The personality of the artist.
(c) Market value of art.
(d) Isolated poetic images.

2. Central to the argument in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," which statement is most indicative of cellar fears?
(a) Cellar fears take longer to fade, and remain tentative and unknown.
(b) Cellar fears precede mental illness.
(c) Cellar fears may be reasoned away.
(d) Cellar fears indicate childhood trauma.

3. As explained by the author in "Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes," what value does an image have that a metaphor does not?
(a) Aesthetic value.
(b) Artistic value.
(c) Humanistic value.
(d) Phenomenological value.

4. When should metaphor be used, in Bachelard's opinion?
(a) Rarely, only to add complexity to a poem.
(b) Frequently, to add color and variety to expression.
(c) Rarely, only when words are inadequate.
(d) Frequently, to stimulate creativity.

5. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
(a) To protect property.
(b) To define boundaries.
(c) To create cities.
(d) To shelter daydreaming.

6. Bachelard explains that the relationship between a small box and a person's psychology of secrecy is known as what?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Homology.
(c) Anthropo-cosmology.
(d) Cosmology.

7. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(b) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.
(c) Fears related to a house's interior space.
(d) Fear of steep hillsides.

8. What does Bachelard identify as the fatal flaw of locked boxes?
(a) Locks can be broken and trick boxes can be figured out.
(b) Locked boxes prevent intimacy.
(c) Locks give negative energy to a house.
(d) Locked boxes defy discovery.

9. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.
(b) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.
(c) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(d) Both seem born of their surroundings.

10. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?
(a) Dreams of security.
(b) A desire to have a home that opens to nature.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Fear of flying.

11. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?
(a) As a butterfly in a chrysalis.
(b) As a universal child from centuries earlier.
(c) As a baby in a cradle.
(d) As a warning of death.

12. With what did Pasternak identify the nest?
(a) The world and its center.
(b) Nature.
(c) Poetry.
(d) The childhood house.

13. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?
(a) A psychoanalyst probing the psyche.
(b) Annoying neighbors who create a disturbance.
(c) A poetic anomoly.
(d) A storm ravaging a house.

14. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A poem.
(b) A soul at peace.
(c) A flourishing nest.
(d) A child's drawing.

15. What is Bachelard's metaphor of the chrysalis?
(a) From the sturdy chrysalis, the delicate butterfly emerges.
(b) From the unnoticed chrysalis, the flamboyant butterfly flies.
(c) From the cottage chrysalis, the winged manor flies.
(d) From the childhood chrysalis, the butterfly moves to a new house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another word for ontology?

2. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?

3. Which is the least significant element in the composition of a poem in Bachelard's opinion?

4. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?

5. Bergson called drawers concepts into which what is classified?

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